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''Hope'' is an oyster sloop that was completed in 1948. It is believed to be the last sail-powered oystering vessel built on the Long Island Sound.〔 Hope is long, including the bowsprit, and at the waterline. Its beam is , and it draws with the centerboard up. Hope is gaff rigged, 'V'-bottomed and has an centerboard. Hope's shallow draft facilitated shoal water work. ==Construction== The keel of Hope was hewn from a giant white oak felled in a hurricane on Brush Island in Indian Harbor, Greenwich, Connecticut. The frame and planking are of white oak trees cut on the Benedict estate across the harbor from Brush Island. They were hauled to Buttery Sawmill in Silvermine to be cut into lumber. The hull is all white oak, double planked and put together by trunnels. The deck is Douglas fir, thick.〔 Hope's mast is a Navy Sitka spruce spar from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Sitka spruce, although it is not considered a light-weight wood, is enormously strong for its weight. Hope’s mast is stepped slightly off-center, a bit to port.〔 Although engines were becoming commonplace for work vessels in the 1940s, Hope, like its predecessors, was designed as a sail-powered vessel because of shell fishing laws enacted before World War 1, which lasted until 1969. These laws, designed to protect state-owned oyster grounds, prohibited the use of motor-powered vessels on the grounds. Designed by Stanley G. Chard, Hope was built on Brush Island by Chard and his two nephews, William B. Chard and Clarence E. Chard. Work on Hope was begun in the fall of 1945 and continued for three winters and one summer. The vessel was launched early in the summer of 1948. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hope (sloop)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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